Health Professionals of Emergency Service: Evaluation of Triage and Ethical Values in Disaster Medicine

Abstract

Aim: To understand opinions of health professionals who work in emergency services about the application of basic concepts, such as triage, ethics, legal rules, to popularize problems they experience while they are providing health services after natural disasters, and to develop suggestions. Materials and Methods: In order to evaluate health service problems, a questionnaire tool was formulated regarding triage and ethics applications. The questionnaire was given to 133 emergency service workers with and without earthquake experiences. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics with statistical significance set at p